Speaking to LinkedIn Executive Editor Daniel Roth, Mr Gates said: “I do think of basic knowledge of the sciences, math skills, economics – a lot of careers in the future will be very demanding for those things.

“It’s not necessarily that you’ll be writing code, but you need to understand what can engineers do and what can they not do.”

It might be too late for some of us to go back to the books, but it’s good advice to share with the younger generation.

We’ve been asking Sun Online readers if they are a “sexist parent” who could be unintentionally stopping their daughter from becoming a tech billionaire.

A recent study found that parents were biased when steering their children into certain careers.

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